Jose Arocha

Past

• Director, Products & Engineering at Laborfair.com
• Product Manager, Worker Experience at Laborfair.com
• Product Manager at Global Health Education Consortium

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Education

• Stanford University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Bolívar

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• Resume (Updated Nov19, 2008)

Jose Arocha’s Summary

I enjoy teaming up with great people to build and manage internet products that make a difference for society. Background summary:

• MIT engineering and product design Science’s Master and research scholar in the social web at Stanford University – strongly analytical, inventive and strategic mind.
• Product management experience in online people-to-people marketplace and rich-media, web2.0 community sites: product positioning and strategy, product roadmap and priority management, data-driven optimization, spec definition and remote engineering management, UI design, product launching, SEO and web2.0 marketing.
• 10 years wearing multiple hats in startups: general management, international business development, multinational R&D innovation and knowledge management consulting, enterprise software services and consumer internet product management.
• Experience working with world-class professionals. Outstanding interpersonal skills in team building, negotiation, consensus finding and business presentations. English-Spanish Bilingual.

Jose Arocha’s Specialties:

Product management, online service marketplace design, p2p, people-to-people marketplaces, local SEO, lead distribution systems, social web2.0, product design, UI design, technology strategy, R&D consulting, knowledge-based innovation, front-end product development, competitive intelligence & analysis, knowledge mining, business development, negotiation, outstanding communication skills, team building, business planning, entrepreneurship, base-of-the-pyramid technologies and business models.

Jose Arocha’s Education

• Stanford University

  Visiting Scholar, Internet, digital and social media, portable computing, BOP business models, latin america, 2004 — 2006

  Semi-finalist, Stanford Social e-Challenge Business Plan Competition 05.

  Activities and Societies:

  Google fellow 2004-05

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Sc.M. in Mechanical Engineering, product design, product development, innovation, engineering science, 1993 — 1996

  Teaching assistant in fundamentals of manufacturing for ME students.

  Activities and Societies:

  Chamber and Symphonic Choir

• Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Bolívar

  Mechanical Engineer, mechanical engineering, engineering design, 1986 — 1992

  Teaching Assistant in basic and advanced mechanics. Top GPA among ME graduates - June 1992.

  Activities and Societies:

  University choir musician - symphonic performances in Europe and The Americas.

Additional Information

Jose Arocha’s Websites:

• Resume (Updated Nov19, 2008)

Jose Arocha’s Honors:

+ Google's Developing World Scholarship at Stanford/Reuters Digital Vision program (2004-05)
+ Reuters Foundation’s Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University (2004-06)
+ Invention Machine Corporation Employee of the month in 2001
+ Venezuela Government’s Fundayacucho Graduate Fellowship, M.I.T., MA (1993-95)
+ Top 1 of 42 ME students - Top 9 of +150 undergrad students at USB.
+ Top GPA of my state in Venezuela.

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